gy619

General:
Sex: F
Race: Asian
Location: CA
High School: Public; competitive, sends a bunch to top schools each year

IB Diploma candidate

Stats:
GPA: 3.75 unweighted
4.44 weighted
Class Rank: top 10% (school ranks by deciles)
SAT: 2160 (720 M, 700 CR, 740 W)

SAT II:
Math IIC- 780
US - 790
Chemistry-760
APs: Calc AB(5), Bio(5), US(5), CompSci AB(5), English Lang (5) , CompSci A(5), Euro(5), Spanish Lang (4)

IB Tests:
Spanish SL – 6
Bio SL - 5
Global Studies HL– Taking in May
Chem HL- Ditto
Math SL - Ditto
English HL - Ditto


Senior Schedule:
IB History of the Americas
AP Macroecon
AP English Literature
AP Government
AP Calc BC
AP Chem
IB Philosophy
Advanced Journalism

Recs: Both teacher recs should be good, counselor rec is probably generic
Essays: So-so, working on them

Extras:
School Newspaper:
-News writer for 2 years
-National Pacemaker Award winning newspaper
Best Buddies:
-member for 3 years
-help out with school’s special ed. Department
Invisible Children:
-member for 2 years
-part of the founding board at our school
-organization that tries to stop exploitation of child soldiers around the world
Buddhist Culture Club:
-board member for 1 year
CSF member
Played the piano since I was 5 and won some award sophomore year, reached level 9 in CM
100+ hours volunteering at local Red Cross chapter
150+ hour interning for California National Organization for Women

Applying to:
Columbia (possible ED)
Amherst
Brown
Cornell
NYU
University of Chicago
Northwestern
Rice
UCB
UCLA

Other:
-Mother went to Cornell for grad school
-Brother attends NYU
-planning on majoring in history

RayRoy

Do you go to Northgate by any chance?

I would say the UC's are high matches/low reaches, the Ivies will always be at minimum a low reach. And I sorta spaced out and forgot the other schools.

RayRoy

Nevermind what I said, everything strong, the UC's are almost-their matches, Cornell should be a match too, Columbia/Brown/Amherst are all low reaches.
NYU/UoC/Rice are high matches. Northwestern is a low reach as well.

Good luck!

intirhabi

Woah, IBer, rare. But I don't get it, how are you only enrolled in 2 IB classes this year?

What is "Global Studies HL"? My school doesn't offer it. we are automatically forced to do History HL and English HL, and then choose 1-2 more HLs.

Is IB Psychology something like TOK or is it completely different?

Invisible Children sounds godly, as long as you can emphasize what you actually did in it. Anyone can be a member, but did you do anything?

I'm not sure the paper winning an award counts as YOU winning an award, especially since you were just a news writer.

RayRoy

Invisible Children is godly. They've done a lot to try and raise money for schools to be built in Africa.

paying3tuitions

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